Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

In the Manna Hall, a map of the Korean Peninsula was rolled out.

Relying on the maps obtained from later generations, Li Shimin also drew a number of small partial maps.

For example, the map of Liaodong in front of you is based on the map of later generations, with the current counties and counties marked on it, and then supplemented by the spheres of influence of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla.

After Li Jing looked at it for a while, he picked up the charcoal and filled in the Tang Army's marching route with several strokes.

Nowadays, they have gradually become accustomed to the military map drawing method of later generations. A simple arrow can indicate the direction of the army, simple and clear.

After looking at it for a while, Li Shimin made a fair judgment:

If there had not been the Baekje Rebellion, we would have been able to march through so many routes, barely enough.

Li Jing nodded. Although he felt from the bottom of his heart that the army was too large, there was nothing wrong with it if it was decided to fight safely.

Then Li Jing made a few brush strokes and simply drew a few horizontal lines on Baekje's sphere of influence, except for Sixi City.

So the situation on the Korean Peninsula was simply presented.

Li Jing also marked a westward arrow in the direction of Japan.

So Li Shimin could only sigh:

The three-legged power has been broken, and it is now in danger.

Later generations called the situation on the Korean Peninsula a fragile balance, and that was quite right.

Judging from the intelligence Li Shimin has now, although Goguryeo is powerful, it is not enough to annex Baekje and Silla.

The founder of Baekje fled from Goguryeo, so it was still a vassal state of the Han Dynasty, while Silla was founded by natives of the Korean Peninsula.

Therefore, Baekje and Silla are seemingly inseparable from each other, and now it is discovered that Baekje is secretly connected with the Japanese country, and Silla may not be able to escape either.

So Li Shimin frowned and had the urge to lift the table for the first time:

There are many monsters and monsters in this small area!

But Li Jing kept writing. After some recollection, he pulled an arrow from the Liaodong battlefield to the west:

That's when Xue Rengui's three arrows fixed Tianshan.

At that time, the person who attacked with Xue Rengui was Xiao Siye, who was deputy general Su Lie.

So it seems that there should be a group of people transferred from Liaodong to the north to suppress the rebellion.

Li Jing made several strokes in succession, and the situation in the entire northeast of the Tang Dynasty was completely revealed to everyone.

So Li Shimin sighed:

If it's Baekje... no, if the Xiongjin Governor's Mansion is stable...

The words are not finished yet, but the meaning is clear to everyone.

If the Ungjin Governor's Mansion can be stabilized both internally and externally, can support the Goguryeo battlefield to the north, cut off the outstretched claws of Japan to the east, and at the same time suppress Silla, the situation on the entire peninsula may be solved.

But now...

This Queen of Japan has great ambitions.

Li Shimin slapped the case and sneered:

In my lifetime, I will definitely capture him before His Highness, and let him tell me personally about his ambition to conquer China.

It doesn't matter if you are ambitious, this is what he likes to fight the most.

The most important thing is that she is a rare foreign queen.

It has to be said that Li Shimin's interest in Japan has increased by more than one degree now.

[After an edict came down, the white-bodied Liu Rengui was reactivated.

Along with the edict, there was also a warrant from Li Yifu. He remotely ordered Liu Renyuan, the defender of Sixian City, to find an excuse and find a way to execute Liu Rengui by military law.

I have to say that Li Yifu really loves Liu Rengui deeply, and they can be said to be like a shadow.

Liu Rengui and Liu Renyuan sound like flesh and blood brothers, but in fact they have nothing to do with each other.

Liu Renyuan's ancestor is Liu Yuan, who established the former Zhao Dynasty during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, also known as Han Zhao. After all, the Xiongnu Liu was also Liu, so the Xiongnu Han were also Han, so there was nothing wrong with him.

Faced with the prime minister's request from a distance, Liu Renyuan was speechless and simply ignored it.

After all, the Xiongjin Governor's Mansion is about to exist in name only. Why are they still fighting among themselves now? Can you be a little ambitious?

Liu Renyuan once served as Li Shimin's personal guard. Historical records record that in order to protect the emperor, he fought with wild animals with bare hands and survived. He was also an upright man. Although he was not capable of confronting Li Yifu Mingshu in the court, he was not interested in being a dog for Li Yifu, so he did not harm him. Liu Rengui.

And Silla next to her had an ambiguous attitude.

When being beaten by Goguryeo and Baekje, Silla wanted to lick the Tang Dynasty as much as possible. But now that the Tang army has come to the Korean Peninsula to help Silla settle its troubles, Silla has become alienated from his Tang Dynasty father. .

Facing the Tang army and the Baekje Restoration Army fighting to the death, Silla took the lead in withdrawing from the battlefield and watched indifferently.

Faced with Li Zhi's order to rescue the Tang army, the King of Silla sent hundreds of people to perfunctory the matter.

Su Dingfang ordered Silla to attack Goguryeo together as agreed in advance. Although the King of Silla sent troops, this army had to flee every battle. After the battle, it even reached out to the Tang army to ask for rewards and food. Su Dingfang was very angry, and the southern front made considerable progress. slow.

In another battle that was advancing at the same time, although Xue Rengui's three arrows fixed the Tianshan Mountain very well, Xue Rengui's general Zheng Rentai made a daring advance and caused more than 10,000 Tang army elite cavalry to be buried in a blizzard, which still made a huge joke.

The nine Tiele surnames that had been broken up by Xue Rengui had a tendency to unite again, so Li Zhi urgently ordered Qibi Heli, who was from the ninth Tiele surname, to go and quell the rebellion.

Qibi Heli was the commander of the northern front of the Goguryeo battlefield at this time. Before he was transferred, he led the army to win consecutive victories at the gates of Pyongyang. However, after an edict came, Qibi Heli retreated, and Goguryeo breathed a sigh of relief.

The retreat of the coach left a gap on the northern front of the Tang Army. Yeon Gaesumun, who shot Erfeng in the eyes every day in the Bangzi TV series, seized the opportunity and surrounded and annihilated the Tang Army with superior force. The army of disciples and thirteen of their own children fought to the death and died for the country.

The northern route suffered setbacks, the southern route was not going well, Silla had evil intentions, Japan was eyeing it, and the Baekje Restoration Army was still working hard to cause trouble. It can be said that the Korean Peninsula has become a mess in the northwest of Shanxi.

Gaozong was ambitious at the beginning of the war, but such a rotten situation had exhausted Gaozong physically and mentally. Coupled with the heavy snowfall, it became natural to withdraw his troops.

Not only that, King Gojong of Baekje did not intend to take it anymore, and ordered Liu Ingui not to hold on, but to retreat to Silla Kingdom and discuss with the King of Silla how to withdraw his troops.

But Liu Rengui felt that before the Tang army came, the Korean Peninsula was a tripartite force. After the Tang army left Baekje to restore the country, the Korean Peninsula was still a tripartite force. Didn't our Tang army come here in vain?

So Liu Rengui insisted on not retreating, and then wrote a long letter to reassure Gaozong again.

Liu Rengui's opinion is very simple, just stick to it and wait for changes, and he really can't trust the King of Silla.

The other party's plan of competing with snipe and clam for profit was so loud that it hit his face.

Liu Rengui's judgment was soon fulfilled: Japan sent troops. 】

Kong Ming sighed:

A embankment of a thousand feet will be destroyed by the burrows of ants. A room of a hundred feet will be burned by the smoke of the gaps.

Gaozong's harsh reduction of military merit has caused the situation in Baekje to deteriorate.

Zheng Rentai's greed for power and rashness allowed Goguryeo to take a breather.

Shaking his head, Kong Ming was not sure whether Su Dingfang, who refused to return, regretted the plundering of Sixian City.

Although there are various excuses to defend it,... the destruction of Baekje is to open up territory and expand territory. It is to make its people become Han people. If they don't return to their hearts, how can we talk about opening up territory and territory?

Thinking of this, Kong Ming looked at Zhang Fei with admiration:

After arriving in Yongliang, I was able to quickly notice the conflict between Han and Qiang. Yide was different from before!

That's how it works.

Zhang Fei on the other side was shocked, patted Military Advisor Pang on the shoulder and said:

Goguryeo actually defeated three emperors in a row?

Pang Tong frowned and touched his shoulders, thought about it carefully, and sighed:

I thought the army was going to accomplish ten years of work in one battle.

As a result, the military situation was not monitored before the war, and troubles continued during the war. Generals were dispatched when the battle was in full swing.

Yide said before that Li Zhi's biggest problem is that he is occasionally irrational. Now it seems that this is indeed the case.

“Think of the beginning and the end, don’t care about the beginning and the end.”

Speaking of this, Pang Tong felt a little regretful:

If Su Dingfang, the leader of the army, could exercise restraint, and if Emperor Gaozong could be more cautious in selecting General Pingbei Hu, maybe...

Pang Tong couldn't help but imagine that if the Tang Dynasty could decide this war and not waste manpower on the Korean peninsula, maybe the history of the Tang Dynasty would be different?

Kong Ming doesn’t think so. Behind the seemingly accidental situation, there are actually a series of frequent problems.

The shortage of military merit, the unmatched virtue of the noble disciples, the lack of strategic vision of the current emperor, etc.

Kong Ming feels that almost every issue can be discussed in a long article and serve as a warning to those who come after him.

But after writing a few strokes, Kong Ming realized that the Tang Dynasty did not take the mistakes of the Han Dynasty as a warning.

After holding the pen for a while, Kong Ming sighed and put the pen down again.

It is unrealistic to just expect future generations to learn from it, because Tang has already explained this problem.

If you want to solve the problem fundamentally, Light Curtain has said it many times before:

If you don't advance, you will retreat. That's the normal course of things.

Engineering, arithmetic, medicine, and calligraphy all need to be advanced, which is what later generations often call progress.

At this moment, Kong Ming felt that he saw the problem more clearly.

Liu Bei on the side touched his chin, recalling Liu Renyuan's resume, and felt quite strange in his heart.

Are the Xiongnu Han also Han? No, since we already respect Han, we are Han, not Xiongnu.

Those who live in the barbarians and respect the Chinese are called Chinese.

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Li Shimin sighed, feeling that he was really anxious watching this battle situation.

He had just defeated Baekje and was about to attack Goguryeo. He thought it was too rash to advance.

The four armies were advancing by land and water, and he thought he had recruited too many troops.

The wartime transfer led to Pang Xiaotai's death. He wanted to get directly into the light curtain and push his son away: Can he command? Let me come!

But in the end, Li Shimin didn't forget that this was his prince. Didn't he teach him everything?

At this moment, Li Shimin felt again that it was really difficult to teach his son.

But at least some things were done well. Li Shimin glanced at Liu Rengui.

For example, he can enable guilty ministers, and he can also accept advice with knowledge.

At this moment, he thought of Feng Changqing during the Xuanzong period. In comparison, the prince's performance should have been pretty good, right?

I'm late today due to work reasons, sorry.

And this issue mainly talks about navigation and science, so it’s front-loaded, so try not to delay.